(April 3, 2019 at 12:44 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 2, 2019 at 9:58 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Early Christian Writings
http://earlychristianwritings.com/mark-prior.html this only concludes that mark is the popular 1st author of the NT, and what worse the evidence is based on everything but content and the times line provided in scripture it self. Because if you read what is in the bible, the bible itself point to luke as being the primary author as he showed up within 10 years of Christ death, was sent for the express purpose of recording everything he could about Christ and sent it back to his master theophilus. who commissioned the work. this would have happened 40 to 50 ad.marks works are some times cited as early as 70 ad. we know luke's work where complete by then as he was apart of Pauls efforts as paul mentions luke several times and luke we know to be the author of acts which end abruptly in late 50 AD.. by the time luke took upon the writing of the acts of the apostles his work in the book of luke had to be done because at the time of acts he was no longer in the service of theophilus but in the service of the apostle paul. Meaning all of the first person tesimony luke records in the book of acts happen in real time sometime before Paul's final journey to rome decades before mark put pen to page.
If any of you ever bother to read the bible, the time lines sort themselves out clearly. but you let other people tll you what is in the bible and you figure they are right because the interwebs says so.
How about read the bible yourelf and discuss what you have read, just like i did above!
The same "Luke" who said that Quirinius was governor of Syria:
Wikipedia -- Census of Quirinius
